What can I do to commemorate Amanda’s birthday? I am trying to organize some photos I took with my phone from 2020. I stumbled upon these three photos I took from my backward on Sunday 17 May 2020. These seem to fit the bill to remember Amanda and who she is to our home and marriage.

Not sure the occasion or why I decided to snap these shots. These are the types of photos that usually just get squirreled away, deleted, or thrown away. No real significance. However, as I look closer, I see a family enjoying their back yard/garden. I see a Ross paradise. The photos include and capture every day living in which the children will at some point say, “I forgot that detail.”

Deep in the quarantine of 2020, we were lounging in our backyard. The above photo you can see Lillian and Aliza drawing or something on the deck. Shovel leaning against the wall, water running in the hose, umbrella sheltering, and garbage waiting.

Below you can see the swing set, sprinkler running, and Amanda hoeing in the garden. Blue neighbors house, lilac in bloom, walking onions growing, crazy raspberries, awaiting old trampoline, and more.

This photo below has more of the same. James relaxed on his stomach likely watching his Mom in the garden. Tipped sand bucket, sitting compost bin, flowering snowballs and lilacs, and more.

Just another lazy, hazy, crazy, day of summer.